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#260912006-10-16
"Investing in the future: Investing in Biodiversity”. Head of International Biodiversity Convention lauds new Canadian biodiversity initiatives.
Montreal 16 October 2006. The head of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity has welcomed the recently adopted Canadian national policy framework for the protection of biodiversity, as well as the launch of talks for the establishment of a major new national park in the Northwest ...
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#196942006-02-17
"You can count on Brazil to protect the biodiversity of our planet".
Speaking today in New York, where he was meeting with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Dr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, hailed the decision of the President of Brazil, H.E. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to place 6.4 million hectares ...
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#1092562016-07-22
101 countries have adopted new national commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity
22 July 2016 – One hundred and one Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have now submitted new national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs), setting out their national contributions to the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, a set of 20 global target ...
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#1188862018-11-29
196 Governments agree to scale up investments in nature and people towards 2020 and beyond: UN Biodiversity Conference closes in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
29 November 2018 – The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP14) closed tonight with broad international agreement on reversing the global destruction of nature and biodiversity loss threatening all forms of life on Earth.
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#1106442016-10-29
1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity promotes strengthening links between biological and cultural diversity
29 OCTOBER 2016 – The 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity, held from 27-29 October in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, produced a regional Declaration on Biocultural Diversity and an annex of practical actions that can be taken at different levels to strengthen the links between ...
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#888792012-06-21
20 years after their birth, three sister Rio Conventions reaffirm their collective responsibility for sustainable development
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21 June 2012 – The heads of the secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reaffirmed their determination to work to g ...
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#62352003-05-21
2010 - The Global Biodiversity Challenge
London 21 May 2003 – More than 150 biodiversity experts from around the world are gathered in London, UK for a three day global meeting on the internationally agreed target of significantly reducing the current rates of biodiversity loss by the year 2010. The meeting brings together Government e ...
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#650942009-11-10
2010 International Year of Biodiversity Website launched in Montreal
Montreal, 10 November 2009 - With only less than 53 days left before the start of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), the website for this unique event in the history of the United Nations was officially launched at a ceremony in Montreal, held with more than 500 participants repr ...
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#684702010-03-12
2010 Winners Announced for the Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award
Montreal, 12 March 2010 – To recognize excellence in the sustainable use of biodiversity in tourism operated in areas managed by indigenous and local communities, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in collaboration with the leading sustainable travel web portal Planeta.com ...
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#846272011-12-19
2011-2020 United Nations Biodiversity Decade Launched in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Montreal, 19 December 2011 – A future of life in harmony with nature is possible, if the world takes action now. The United Nations Decade on Biodiversity (UNDB) was launched in Kanazawa, Japan, on 17 December 2011, in a ceremony organized by the United Nations University, in collaboration with ...
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#984182014-04-08
2014 UEBT Biodiversity Barometer report says consumers expect companies to respect biodiversity
While 87% of consumers surveyed worldwide want companies to adopt sourcing policies that respect biodiversity, only 27% of the top 100 beauty and personal care companies actually mention biodiversity on their websites or in their corporate sociability reports, according to the newly launched 201 ...
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#1044022015-06-25
2015 UEBT Biodiversity Barometer shows additional efforts needed to reach UN targets on biodiversity awareness
Montreal, 25 June 2015 – An average of 69% of respondents in nine countries say they have heard of biodiversity, but additional outreach efforts are needed for the world to reach global targets on biodiversity awareness set under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
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#1111962016-12-02
2016 Business and Biodiversity Forum to focus on opportunities for business
2 December 2016 – Immediately prior to the UN Biodiversity Conference, and in parallel with the High-Level Segment, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Government of Mexico are hosting the 2016 Business and Biodiversity Forum in Cancun, Mexico, from 2-3 Decemb ...
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#1212082019-05-24
2019 Global Youth Video Competition Now Open for Applications
24 May 2019 – Young people from around the world are encouraged to submit videos for the 2019 Global Youth Video Competition showcasing positive solutions on three themes: Nature-based Solutions for Food and Human Health; Cities and Local Action to Combat Climate Change; and Nature-Based Solutio ...
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#789232011-05-11
21 Parties Have Now Signed the Nagoya Protocol
Montreal, 11 May 2011 – Eight additional Parties today signed the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity, bringing the total number of signatories to 21.
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#478332008-05-28
3 Heads of State, 87 Ministers to Open Biodiversity High Level Conference
Bonn, 27 May—The leaders of Germany, Canada and Palau, together with 87 ministers, will open high-level talks aimed at promoting the protection of the world’s biodiversity at the World Conference Center in Bonn tomorrow morning, 28 May, and continue at the Maritim Hotel through Friday, 30 May.
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#1337182022-03-03
50 million Euros to seed new Nature for Health Trust Fund for Pandemic Prevention
Nairobi, 3 March 2022 – The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and onsumer Protection (BMUV), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD) today jointly announced the establishment of a Mul ...
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#723582010-08-09
500 Tunisian Schools to Join the Green Wave for Biodiversity
Montreal, 9 August 2010. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year commencing 12 August 2010 the International Year of Youth. The theme of the Year is “Dialogue and Mutual Understanding”. The observance was proposed by the President of the Republic of Tunisia, H.E. Zine El Abidine ...
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#207012006-03-29
A Global Island Partnership launched by the President of Palau at the Curitiba Biodiversity Conference.
The President of Palau, the President of Indonesia, the Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia, Grenada and Kiribati launched the “Global Island Partnership” aimed at enhancing marine and terrestrial protected areas as a major contribution of achieving the Heads of State commitment ...
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#729552010-08-31
A Goal for Biodiversity during the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Montreal, 31 August 2010 – With the support of the Global Environment Facility, the messages of the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) were brought to an audience estimated at over 600,000 spectators watching live matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on giant screens in South Africa.
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#1295122021-07-12
A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts
Montreal, 12 July 2021 – The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat today released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people.
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#773772011-03-07
A New International Treaty to Address Damage that may Result from Living Modified Organisms Opens for Signature
Montreal, 7 March 2011 – At a ceremony held today in New York, the Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was opened for signature by Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Th ...
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#767072011-02-02
A New Legal Instrument at the Service of Sustainable Development Opens for Signature
Montreal, 2 February 2011 – At a ceremony held today in New York, the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization was opened for signature by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Addressing the opening ...
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#750902010-11-11
A Table from the Sea’s Edge - Artwork in celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity
Montreal, 11 November 2010 – During the historic United Nations summit on biodiversity recently concluded in Nagoya, Japan, an object that gained great attention from conference delegates was a large table and chairs crafted from driftwood. Created by British furniture-maker and artist Silas Bir ...
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#741272010-10-10
A United Nations Conference on the Safe Use of Modern Biotechnology Opens Tomorrow
Nagoya, 10 October, 2010 – A five-day meeting of the governing body of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, known as the “Conference of the Parties serving as meeting of the Parties to the Protocol” (or COP-MOP) opens here Monday at the Nagoya Congress Centre. More than 4,000 delegates, includi ...
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#1087002016-05-23
A major series of four regional reports entitled The State of Biodiversity – a mid-term review of progress towards the Strategic Plan, have been launched.
The four reports, one each for Africa, Asia and the Pacific, West Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean offer a regional perspective of the Convention’s 2014 publication Global Biodiversity Outlook-4 (GB0-4). Using a similar approach and method of analysis to that of GBO-4, each of the regi ...
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#480032008-05-30
A new Universal Global Alliance for Biodiversity Protection established in Bonn
Bonn, 30 May 2008 –Representatives of 191 Parties and over 100 ministers have produced significant new measures to increase the network of protected areas and to negotiate an international set of rules on access to and sharing of the benefits of the rich genetic resources of the world. In so do ...
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#208462006-03-31
A new era of implementation of the Convention on all life on Earth is born in Curitiba at the largest ever gathering of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Curitiba, 31 March 2006 – 4,000 delegates from around the world have agreed on a road map to significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, in line with the agreement reached by 110 Heads of State and Government at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg in ...
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#747212010-10-29
A new era of living in harmony with Nature is born at the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit
Nagoya, Japan 29 October 2010. Some 18,000 participants representing the 193 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and their partners closed the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit by adopting historic decisions that will permit the community of nations to meet the unprecedented challe ...
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#150642005-09-12
Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals requires the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity
Montreal 12 September 2005 – World leaders and representatives of civil society attending the Millennium Summit in New York this week must take action to conserve and use biological diversity sustainably, and distribute its benefits equitably if the world is to achieve the Millennium Development ...
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#437532008-02-11
Achieving the Johannesburg Biodiversity Target on Protected Areas
Rome - 11 February 2008. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened the second meeting of its Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WGPA 2) today at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. The meeting will run from 1 ...
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#906092012-10-08
Action in support of Biodiversity urgently needed: UN Meeting on Biodiversity opens in Hyderabad India
Hyderabad, India 8 October 2012 - Representatives from over 170 countries today began deliberations in Hyderabad, India, on the way forward to protect the planet’s biodiversity.
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#325212007-05-07
Advisory Group for Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Concludes Four Day Meeting in Montreal
The second meeting of the Advisory Group for Article 8(j) was held in Montreal from 30 April to 3 May 2007. The Group included 20 participants from indigenous and local communities from all over the world. Representatives of Brazil and Germany, in their capacity as Presidents of the eight and ...
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#1188592018-11-15
African ministers adopt a Pan-African action agenda on ecosystem restoration: Agree to build momentum to implement commitments for biodiversity
15 November 2018 - African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.
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#1306232021-10-07
Agenda for Part One of UN Biodiversity Conference
Montreal, 7 October 2021 – Part One of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP-15) gets underway in Kunming, China, on 11 October 2021. Due to the pandemic situation, this first phase of the conference will be held mostly virtually, with limited onsite participation in Kunming
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#475062008-05-16
Agreement reached to work towards a legally binding instrument on Liability and Redress with regard to GMOs
Bonn, 16 May 2008 - After four years of intensive negotiation, the 2,000 participants attending the Bonn Biosafety Meeting, the largest ever gathering on biosafety, agreed to work towards legally binding rules and procedures for liability and redress for potential damage caused from the tran ...
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#186532006-01-03
Ahmed Djoghlaf assumes duties as Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Calls for a global alliance to combat biodiversity loss.
Montreal, 3 January 2006 – Calling on the citizens of the world to join in the effort to preserve life on earth, a 52 year-old Algerian man with a passion for poetry and forest walks takes up the helm of the world’s key biological treaty today. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, appoin ...
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#821742011-09-20
Aichi biodiversity heads of agencies task force established with 27 global partners
Montreal, 21 September 2011 – At a signing ceremony organized by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed with 27 of the largest international agencies, organizations and environmental conventions for implementation and achievement o ...
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#670932010-01-22
Aichi-Nagoya, the Host Region of the Next Conference of Parties, Celebrates the International Year of Biodiversity
Montreal, 22 January 2010 – At the initiative of the United Nations General Assembly and with a view of engaging all stakeholders for protecting life on Earth, 2010 has been declared as the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). To mark the International Year of Biodiversity, an opening event ...
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#650272009-11-09
Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010)
Montreal 9 November 2009. Today, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) launched the Aichi/Nagoya International E-Conference on the Post 2010 Biodiversity Target (ANIEC 2010) to gather views from the broad and diverse groups of biodiversity stakeholders on actions that ...
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#685962010-03-17
Airbus A380 Flies the Flag for the International Year of Biodiversity
Montreal, 17 March 2010. Aircraft manufacturer Airbus is showing support for the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) by featuring the IYB logo on its largest passenger aircraft, the A380.
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#701342010-05-18
Alarming Global Survey on Children’s Perceptions of Nature
18 May 2010 – Daryl Hannah joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes at London Zoo yesterday to launch the results of an Airbus survey exploring children’s perceptions of nature. The actress and environmentalist announced the results of the ‘Airbus Bio-Index’ – a survey of more than 10,000 children and young p ...
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#925372013-02-28
Albania, Botswana and the Federated States of Micronesia ratify Nagoya Protocol
Montreal, 28 February 2013 – Albania, Botswana and the Federated States of Micronesia have become the 13th 14th and 15th countries to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biolo ...
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#708162010-06-11
Alliance for Zero Extinction and the Convention on Biological Diversity Join Forces
Washington, D.C., 11 June, 2010 – Two of the world’s premier institutions promoting biodiversity conservation—the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE), a global alliance to prevent extinction of species, and the Convention on Biological Diversity and its 193 Parties—are entering into a partnership ...
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#702362010-05-21
An Enhanced Communication Tool for a New Biodiversity Era - The website of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) enhanced to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity and the International Year of Biodiversity
Montreal, 21 May 2010 – The new look and feel of the website of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will be launched on 22 May 2010 to mark the annual celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity.
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#62472003-05-22
Annan calls for preservation of world's biodiversity
22 May - Calling biodiversity "an essential heritage for all humankind", United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to governments and the entire international community to preserve the planet's diverse ecology "on which all life depends"
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#809982011-08-01
Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization
Montreal, 1 August 2011 – Antigua and Barbuda has become the forty-first signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing and the first Caribbean island country to signal its intent to ratify.
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#811902011-08-10
Antigua and Barbuda becomes twenty-sixth signatory to the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol
Montreal, 10 August 2011 – Yesterday, Antigua and Barbuda became the twenty-sixth Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the first small island developing State, to sign the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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#795412011-06-06
Arabic version of CBD website inaugurated as a contribution to achieving the objectives of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
Montreal, 6 June 2011 – The Arabic version of the website of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was launched today at the occasion of the opening of the first meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair an ...
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#838002011-11-16
Argentina becomes sixty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing
Montreal, 16 November 2011 – Yesterday, 15 November 2011, Argentina became the sixty-seventh signatory of the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).